Affiliation:
1. All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, India
Abstract
Parenting is a wonderful and rewarding experience, but in the case of parents of children with communication disorder, this experience is often accompanied with high levels of stress, due to difficulties, frustrations, and challenges that these parents face in everyday life. This chapter was carried out to find the status of stress in parents of children with communication disorder and also to find the levels of stress among mothers as well as fathers, and the level of support system available. The results revealed that most of the parents experience stress and anxiety in bringing up their child with communication disorder, although the stress being more in the mothers. Gender of the child also played a crucial role in determining the levels of stress. The results highlighted the fact that parents of children with autism spectrum disorder have a higher level of stress followed by parents of children with intellectual disability, multiple disability, and hearing impairment.
Reference66 articles.
1. Psychological Well-Being and Coping in Mothers of Youths With Autism, Down Syndrome, orFragile X Syndrome
2. The influence of parenting stress and socioeconomic disadvantage on therapy attendance among parents and their behaviour disordered preschool children.;M. L.Andra;Education & Treatment of Children,1998
3. Psychological well‐being among mothers of children with cerebral palsy